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Linking species names

Hi everybody, just one question. The species name should be linked to their corresponding wikipedia page, using their scientific name as the hyperlink or their common name? Wht is the convention? Oscar.garcia.miranda (talk) 16:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Monogamy and cooperative breeding

I understand that the evolutionary association of social monogamy and cooperative breeding exists in mammals, nonetheless, for now, I'm going to delete that section of this article, since is really vague and unclear. I will try to add a proper entry on this section in the future. I leave here the deleted paragraph:

"Cooperative breeding is defined as a social system where individuals take care of offspring other than their own. These individuals may include nonbreeding adults or subadults, alloparents, or simply reproductive adults who share the care amongst each other.[35] This care often includes provisioning for food or protection from predators. The association between cooperative breeding and monogamy has been connected to monogamous pairings within mammalian societies.[36][37]

Lukas and Clutton-Brock (2012) extensively discuss this association between monogamy and cooperative breeding.[36] Most females provision and care for their young; however, there are certain species such as Mongooses, New World monkeys, and Porcupines that care for their young with the assistance of non-breeding helpers. This concept triggers the question as to why any individuals would take care of offspring other than their own. As described by the study, this social system could be triggered by the non-breeding helpers' benefit to maximize their fitness by assisting in the rearing of the young."

Oscar.garcia.miranda (talk) 17:17, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Diversity of Sex

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